This Week in Elasticsearch - November 14, 2013

Welcome to This Week in Elasticsearch. In this roundup, we try to inform you about the latest and greatest changes in Elasticsearch. We cover what happened in the GitHub repositories, as well as many Elasticsearch events happening worldwide, and give you a small peek into the future of the project.

Elasticsearch Core

We released 0.90.7 yesterday, the current stable release of the 0.90 series. Upgrading is recommended.

Where to Find Us

Australia

Clinton Gormley will be speaking at the inaugural Sydney Elasticsearch Meetup on November 18th and the Melbourne Search Users Group on November 21st. Clinton will cover new features forthcoming in 1.0 and will be joined by other speakers from the Melbourne and Sydney community. We'll have full details for you next week.

Belgium

If you're heading to Devoxx Belgium 2013, be sure to check out David Pilato on Elastify Your App: From SQL to NoSQL in Less than One Hour. David will speak on Wednesday, November 13th at 3:10 PM in Room 6. David will also give a lightning talk, Make Sense of Your (BIG) Data on Thursday, November 14th at 1:10 PM in Room 9. Devoxx Belgium runs from November 11-15 at the Metropolis Business Center in Antwerp.

Germany

Netherlands

Elasticsearch will be at the CloudStack Collaboration Conference EU on November 20-22nd in Amsterdam. Stop by our table to say hello, and make sure to catch Boaz Leskes and Gerard de Vos' workshop on Elasticsearch, taking place on Wednesday, November 20th. Also you can easily join the Elasticsearch Amsterdam Meetup on the 20th as well in the evening. Even if you attend the Cloudstack Collaboration Conference, feel free to come over, as the event starts a bit later.

United States

Lee and Drew are both attending Clojure Conj in Alexandria this week, as elasticsearch is also a conference sponsor

You can learn all about how Atlassian uses Elasticsearch for Heavy lifting in HipChat at the San Francisco Bay Area meetup on Monday, November 18th. Atlassian will be hosting the meetup at their offices and doors open at 6:30 PM.

Where to Find You

Our Community Manager, Leslie Hawthorn, is hard at work to help folks create more Elasticsearch meetup groups and to help meetup organizers find more speakers. If you are interested in either effort, take a moment to let her know.

Oh yeah, we're also hiring. If you'd like us to find you for employment purposes, just drop us a note. We care more about your skill set and passion for Elasticearch, Kibana and Logstash than where you rest your head.

Trainings

If you are interested in Elasticsearch training we have courses taught by our core developers coming up in: